SENATE BILL REPORT
EHB 1859
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As Reported by Senate Committee On:
Ways & Means, March 24, 2015
Title: An act relating to the amendment, recodification, decodification, or repeal of statutes relating to state capital construction funds and accounts and bond authorizations that are inactive, obsolete, or no longer necessary for continued publication in the Revised Code of Washington.
Brief Description: Concerning the amendment, recodification, decodification, or repeal of statutes relating to state capital construction funds and accounts and bond authorizations that are inactive, obsolete, or no longer necessary for continued publication in the Revised Code of Washington.
Sponsors: Representatives Kilduff, Smith and Dunshee; by request of State Treasurer.
Brief History: Passed House: 3/11/15, 98-0.
Committee Activity: Ways & Means: 3/24/15 [DP].
SENATE COMMITTEE ON WAYS & MEANS |
Majority Report: Do pass.
Signed by Senators Hill, Chair; Braun, Vice Chair; Dammeier, Vice Chair; Honeyford, Vice Chair, Capital Budget Chair; Hargrove, Ranking Member; Keiser, Assistant Ranking Member on the Capital Budget; Ranker, Ranking Minority Member, Operating; Bailey, Becker, Billig, Brown, Conway, Fraser, Hasegawa, Hatfield, Hewitt, Kohl-Welles, O'Ban, Padden, Parlette, Rolfes, Schoesler and Warnick.
Staff: Steve Jones (786-7440)
Background: State laws are found in the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), which is codified and published by the Code Reviser under the supervision of the Statute Law Committee, a legislative agency.
State law directs the State Treasurer to biennially submit to the Office of Financial Management (OFM) and the Legislature a list of any funds or accounts under the supervision of the State Treasurer that the Treasurer believes to be obsolete.
Numerous state statutes relate to state capital construction funds or authorize the issuance of state capital construction bonds or other forms of indebtedness. Once the construction projects are complete and all debt service payments are paid, the state funds become inactive and the statutes become obsolete. Obsolete statutes can be repealed or removed (decodified) from the RCW without affecting the validity of the prior statutory authorizations.
In 2013 the Legislature directed the State Treasurer, OFM, and the Code Reviser to review state statutes relating to state capital construction funds and accounts and bond authorizations, and submit to the 2015 Legislature recommended legislation for the amendment, repeal, or decodification of those statutes that are inactive, obsolete, or no longer necessary for continued publication in the RCW.
Summary of Bill: State statutes relating to state capital construction funds and accounts and bond authorizations that are inactive, obsolete, or no longer necessary for continued publication in the RCW are amended, repealed, or decodified.
Appropriation: None.
Fiscal Note: Not requested.
Committee/Commission/Task Force Created: No.
Effective Date: Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.
Staff Summary of Public Testimony: None.
Persons Testifying: No one.